The politics of dress in Asia and the Americas
By: edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards.
Contributors: Roces, Mina, 1959-; Edwards, Louise P.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845191559
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Asia; Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- North America; Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- South America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trans-national flows and the politics of dress in Asia and the Americas / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces; title: Gender, nation and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces; title: Dressing for power : scholars' robes, school uniforms and military attire in China / Louise Edwards; title: Refashioning civilization : dress and bodily practice in Thai nation-building / Maurizio Peleggi; title: Gender, citizenship and dress in modernizing Japan / Barbara Molony; title: Identity, nation and Islam : a dialogue about men's and women's dress in Indonesia / Jean Gelman Taylor; title: "Dressed in a little brief authority" : clothing the body politic in Burma / Penny Edwards; title: Power dressing on the prairies : the grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress 1750-1930 / Blanca Tovias; title: Nationalism and national dress in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle; title: Refashioning the Inca : costume, political power and identity in late Bourbon Peru / David Cahill; title: Wigs, weapons, tattoos and shoes : getting dressed in colonial Amazonia and Brazil / Barbara A. Sommer; title: Fabricating specimen citizens : nation building in nineteenth-century Mexico / Magali M. Carrera; title: Urban expressions of solidarity : fashioning citizenship in Argentina / Regina A. Root.